2007 Ausone 2007 1500ml

95 POINTS

Neal Martin - Wine Advocate

A deep black/purple colour. Like many other wines, the nose is quite taciturn at first, but it unfurls just like the Cheval Blanc to reveal some lovely pure blackberries, briary and bilberry. Very good definition and sense of minerality. This has immense concentration, very ripe black fruit and no evidence of any greenness at all. Lovely texture and focus, sappy finish. Great length, minerals all over the show. Excellent. Tasted April 2008.

94 POINTS

Robert Parker - Wine Advocate

The 2007 Ausone is a candidate for one of the wines of the vintage, rivaling Pavie and Lafite Rothschild. Its deep ruby/purple hue is accompanied by a beautiful nose of spring flowers, raspberries, black currants, and crushed rocks. The wine is dense, medium to fullbodied, and pure with sweet tannin as well as a surprisingly evolved, forward style. It is one of the few Ausones I have tasted that can be drunk with great pleasure at this stage, yet it promises to evolve for two decades. Drink 2010-2030

92 POINTS

Stephen Tanzer - Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar

Full red-ruby color. Inky black cherry, blueberry, licorice and bitter chocolate on the nose, plus a whiff of roasted meat that quickly dissipated. Dense and chewy on the palate, with very good intensity to its dark fruit, leather and chocolate flavors and a pronounced rocky quality. Showed increasing vibrancy with aeration but there's no easy sweetness to this soil-driven wine. Struck me as a bit energetically extracted. Finishes broad and long, with substantial dusty tannins. I'd forget about this for at least a few years. (92(+?) points)

91 POINTS

James Suckling - Wine Spectator

Berry and milk chocolate aromas, with hints of flowers, follow through to a medium-to-full body, with very silky tannins and a delicious, fruity finish. Subtle and pretty, balanced and gorgeous. So refined and caressing. Best after 2013.

Jancis Robinson MW

55% Cabernet Franc, 45% Merlot. Heady. Rich and heady. A bit angular, not exaggerated but in this damp vintage not as mellifluous as Cheval’s gravel-based wine. Some green notes, a little awkward. Not Ausone’s finest hour, I feel. A bit chewy and green. We have to take the development on trust really, although I know the wine provoked greater enthusiasm a couple of days before. 17++ 17/20

Jacques Dupont - Le Point

Fruits noirs épices, très beau fruit, complexe, réglisse. Bouche dense, moelleuse, ronde, souple, tendue, ferme, longue, tendre très joli fruit, rond, long, élégant, gourmand. 18/20